Transcription and a Translation Flashcards
What is Translation?
The decoding of information into proteins
What is Transcription?
The passing of information from DNA to RNA
Introns don’t?
Do not code for messenger genetic information
Exons do?
Coded genetic information
What is a promoter?
Indent odors where the gene starts
What are the four types of chromosomal mutations?
Duplications
Deletions
Inversion
Translocation
Mutations include?
Point mutation and Front-shift mutation
Who experimented with rats and caused pneumonia (transformation)?
Griffith
Whose experiment was DNA and protein destroying enzymes?
Avery
McCarthy
macloud
Whose experiment used Bacteriophages with radioactive phosphorous and sulfur
Hershey and Chase
Whose experiment included X-ray diffraction to figure out the helix?
Franklin
Whose experiment determined the structures of the DNA
Called a double helix
Watson and Crick
